Ocean Color Image Gallery

Southern Yellow Sea

In addition to the background colors imparted by phytoplankton and suspended sediment, the above Landsat 8 view of the southern edge of the Yellow Sea features many wakes of ships that are either underway or anchored in the the tidal current. It also features thousands of dark green algal patches that are lined up by wind and current and floating at the water's surface.

The above image was collected on April 6, 2021. Click on it to get a much larger (97 megabyte) image that shows a much larger swath of the Yellow Sea and East China Sea.